Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> April 4, 2005
BOGDAN MAGLICH is Chairman and CEO of HiEnergy Technologies, Inc. As an
experimental nuclear particle physicist, he was honored for his
discoveries and inventions by Presidents John F. Kennedy, Gerald Ford,
and the President of Switzerland. His discoveries and inventions prior
to his work at HiEnergy include: discovery of omega meson, discovery of
delta meson; neutron photometry (industrially produced); film-less spark
chamber (industrially produced); and laboratory equipment: missing mass
spectrometer, annihilation spectrometer; auto-collider (of accelerated
particle beams). As CEO and Chief Scientific Officer of HiEnergy
Technologies, Dr. Maglich has been the mastermind of technology strategy
and development, while continuously inventing. After obtaining his PhD
from MIT, his scientific career started at UC Berkeley and CERN European
Center for High Energy Physics in Geneva, Switzerland. He was Professor
of Physics at University of Pennsylvania, Joint Faculty, Princeton-
Pennsylvania Accelerator Laboratory and Professor at Rutgers University.
He has performed experiments with his team at Brookhaven National
Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Argonne National Lab, and
Air Force Weapons Lab, now Phillips Laboratory. In addition, Dr. Maglich
has played a role in converting the Russian nuclear scientists from
weapon to peaceful research, and establishing post-Chernobil safety
measures for Soviet reactors in Eastern Europe. Prior to his coming to
MIT as a UNESCO Fellow, Dr. Maglich received a Master of Science degree
from Britain's University of Liverpool, and a Bachelor of Science degree
from the University of Belgrade. In the period 1985 to 1987, Dr. Maglich
was CEO and Principal Investigator of Aneutronic Energy Labs, Inc.,
which in partnership with Bechtel Engineering, carried on a U.S. Air
Force contract to design a space power plant for the U.S. Space Defense
Initiative. From 1988 to 1993, Dr. Maglich served as CEO of Advanced
Physics Corporation, which designed a miniature nuclear fission reactor
for electricity production in collaboration with MIT and Kurchatov
Atomic Energy Institute, Moscow. Dr. Maglich founded HiEnergy
Microdevices in 1995, which became HiEnergy Technologies (HIET) in April
2002. In March 2004, Maglich was elected as one of the '50 Champions of
Innovation' out of 1,650 candidates by Fast Company magazine. Maglich
has been PI on 6 DoD contracts for the development of Stoichiometric
explosive detection. He is currently PI on SBIR Phase II for Anti-Tank
landmine detector and on a cooperation agreement with the TSA under the
Manhattan II Project for the development of advanced airport baggage
screening technologies. Glenn T. Seaborg of U. of California, Science
Advisor to six US Presidents, on research on non-radioactive fusion:
"This was all started by Maglich, the man I admire" [CNN Future Watch,
1992]. Profile
Dr. Maglich: HiEnergy Technologies is a company dedicated to the
development and commercialization of 'Stoitech_,' that is
'stoichiometric technology.'
